Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

- Proverb

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Thoreau, Henry David

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Nathan, George Jean

Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art, or life (like aesthetic joys). I must refuse it in order to be worthy to receive it

Weil, Simone

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family --but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Cather, Willa

Life is nothing without friendship.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

My friends, there are no friends.

Chanel, Coco

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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.

Proverb

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Augustine, St.

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Let your best be for your friend...

Gibran, Kahlil

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Proverb, Sicilian

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Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind.

Godospeed, Edgar

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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Hoffer, Eric

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I have a friend who tells a tale With statements parenthetical; To start at the beginning must To her seem quite heretical; For her accounts of happenings Are full of disconnection s; She starts them in the middle, And proceeds in all directions.

Stux, Erica H.

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It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

Proverb, Danish

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.

Prentice, George D.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Quarles, Francis

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Without friends no one would choose to live.

Aristotle

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Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Santayana, George

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.

Alcott, Louisa May

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.

Proverb, Russian

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.Before him, I may think aloud.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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May I always be worth of my friends.

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

Lamb, Charles

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To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Jefferson, Thomas

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A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.

Saying, Jewish

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew